"An intriguing and thought-provoking book on the challenges America faces globally."
Bruce Riedel, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution."Ever insightful, journalist-writer Keith Spicer has given us an urgently needed, fact-packed, cogently analyzed deconstruction of a world hell-bent on reflexively using military might instead of creative diplomacy to resolve conflicts and remove despots. It's also a damning portrait of media and journalists as cheerleaders."
John Owen, Professor of International Journalism in London's City University and Executive Producer for Programs for the Al Jazeera English Channel."...a uniquely balanced commentary on the crisis of relations between the West and the Arab world. A fresh, witty and very worthwhile book."
Clyde Sanger, former Economist correspondent for Canada."...a brilliant and penetrating analysis of where the entire Middle East has come from and where it may be heading."
Jeff Cole, Director of the Center for the Digital Future at the Annenberg School, University of Southern California."Spicer convincingly identifies the failure of military means to defeat radical Islam. He argues (instead) for (the rebirth of) a lucid American idealism, one that would educate women rather than killing men.."
Michael Adams, President, Environics Group, author of Fire & Ice, and American Backlash.